Timer for egg-boilers.



C.'E. BERGER.

TIMER FOR EGG BOILERS.

APPLICATION FILED RUG-26. 1915.

Patented May 30,1916.

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CHARLES E. BERGER, 0F MUNHALL, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TOHENRY HOWDEN, OF HOMESTEAD, PENNSYLVANIA.

TIMER FOR EGG-BOILERS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 30, 1916.

Original application filed March 31, 1915, Serial No. 17.736. Dividedand this application filed August 26,

. 1915. Serial No. 47,546. a

'1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES E. BERGER, acitizen ofthe United States, residing at Munhall. in the county ofAllegheny and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a Timer forEgg-Boilers, of which the following is a full and completeSpecification.

This application is a division of the application for patent filed by meMarch 31, 1915; Serial No. 17,736.

The principal'object of my present invention is to provide an eggboiling device or egg-carrier with a minute-glass for accurately timingthe boiling operation; the minute-glass ,in the present instance beingmounted in a frame trunnioned in thehandle of the egg-carrier so thatmay be conveniently turned and securely held in vertical position forthe stand to run from one compartment to the other.

\Vith this object in view my invention consists primarily in theparticular construction of the rotatable frame containing theminute-glass, whereby the latter is cushioned in said frame, inconnection with means movably mounted on the handle of the egg-carrierto engage either end of the minute-glass and hold it in operativeposition: all as hereinafter fully described in the followingspecifications. and more specifically set forth in the appended claims.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part hereofFigure 1 is a frontelevation of an egg boiling device constructed in accordance with myinvention. Fig. 2 is a detail side view. showing the particular mannerof supporting the minute-glass; Fig. 3 is a similar view, with theminute-glass turned partially around. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 are detailshereinafter referred to.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of thedrawings.

In carrying out my invention I employ in the first instance an eggcarrier or tray 10, having a handle 11 attached to and pro jectingupwardly from the center thereof; said tray being provided with suitableopenings to receive the eggs, and with downwardly projecting resilienttongues 12 and 13 at the edges of the openings-to yieldingly supportsaid eggs therein. The supporting tongues 13, at the outer portions ofthe tray, are longer than the companion tongues 12, to provide feet uponwhich the device may the cooked eggs removed.

rest to keep the eggs from the bottom of the cooking utensil and fromstriking the top of a table while the tray is being filled or The handle11 may be attached to the tray in any suitable manner, but preferably inthe manner shown and described in my companion application hereinbeforereferred to.

The handle of the egg-carrier is provided near its upper end with arectangular frame 11, provided at opposite sides with bearing apertures15, and said handle is extended upwardly from the center of the framefor a short distance, as at 16, and terminates in a grasping andsuspending-loop 17. This handle, including the frame, is preferablyformed from a single piece or length of wire, which is first bent uponitself centrally to form the loop 17, twisted together to provide theshort shank 16, then separated and extended to provide the rectangularframe 14, below which the two members of the Wire are brought togetheragain and twisted toframe 18, having trunnions 19 which engage in thebearing-apertures 15, and this rotatable frame carries a minute-glass20. This rotatable frame is in the present instance made of two strandsof wire of suitable gage, the ends of the Wires being twisted togetherto form the trunnions, and the intermediate portions separated,extended, and

formed into coils 21, 21, to receive the ends of the minute-glass. Inorder to cushion the minute-glass and thereby protect it from breakageeach coil is provided with a cushion, preferably in the form of a rubbertube 22, which is slipped on to the wire before the coil is formed. Theminute-glass extends between the rubber-covered coils of the frame. andthe ends of said glass project slightly beyond the coils, for thepurpose hereinafter explained. In this manner the minute-glass isyieldingly supported within the rotatable frame to relieve it of any jarto which the egg-carrier may be subjected. so as to not only preventbreakage of said minute-glass but also prevent the sand from clogging inthe neck between the compartments. It will be noted, further, that therubber tubes forming the cushioning coils project beyond the planes ofthe front and rear sides of the minuteglass to protect the latter fromcontact with a straight surface against which the handle of theegg-carrier may strike.

The frame carrying the minute-glass may be conveniently turned on itstrunnion bearings to change the relative location of the compartments,for permitting the sand to run from one to the other, and conversely,and in order to hold the minute-glass with its supporting frame ineither operative position I slidably mount on the short shank '16 of thehandle of the egg-carrier a button or sleeve 24, provided in its lowerend with a conical recess 24 approximating the contour. of the ends ofthe minute-glass so as to fit thereover. The button or sleeve is alsoprovided with a central opening, 24 to receive the shank, and with sideslots 24, 24, into which pass the upper ends of the rectangular frame ofthe handle of the eggcarrier.

In using the device the eggs are placed in the tray and the minute-glassturned and engaged by the holding-sleeve, after which the device isimmediately placed in the boiler or cooking vessel so that when the sandruns glass requiring any predetermined time for the sand to run from onecompartment to the other, corresponding to the time it is desired thatthe eggs remain in the boiler or cooking vessel, for instance threeminutes.

The device provides a very simple, cheap ing-table so as to be removedas they are i needed for use.

In the modification, shown in Fig. 5 of the drawings, I contemplateusing a rubber cap 25 on each end of the minute-glass, to form a cushionbetween said glass and the coil 21 of the wire frame, the inner edge ofthe cap being provided with an enlarged rim 25, and in thisinstance theend of the minuteglass is also cushioned for contact with the holdingbutton or sleeve 24.

Having described my invention, I claim:

1. A timer for egg boilers comprising a supporting frame having a shortshank above said frame, a smaller frame trunnloned in the aforementionedframe and carrying a minute-glass, and a sleeve slidable on the shank toengage either end of the minute-glass, substantially as shown anddescribed.

2. A timer for egg boilers comprising a supporting frame havingbearing-eyes at opposite sides, a smaller frame trunnioned in thebearing eyes in the afo ementioned frame and carrying a minute-glass, arubber cushion between the minute-glass and its frame, and meansslidable on the first mentioned frame to engage either end of theminute-glass, substantially as shown and described.

3. A timer for egg boilers comprising a supporting frame, a wire framehaving trunnions by which it is pivoted in the aforementioned frame andcoils receiving the ends of the minute-glass, and rubber tubing on thecoils to form a cushion for the minute-glass; together with means forholding the minute-glass in vertical position, substantially as shownand described.

CHARLES E. BERGER.

Witnesses:

' ANDREW J. HUNTER,

EDGAR W. LAYMAN.

